Watching people’s stories on screen can be fascinating and exhilarating, but the act of looking can also feel uncomfortable, invasive, even violating. And underpinning these uncomfortable moments we often find alarming messages about the role of consent.
REFERENCES
• Intrusions by Melissa Febos
• Girlhood (2021) by Melissa Febos
• Ways of Seeing with John Berger, Episode 2 (1972)
• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey
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